Elizabeth Purchell is a Brooklyn-based queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the creator of Ask Any Buddy. She’s also the Print Traffic and Special Projects Manager at the American Genre Film Archive.

She has appeared on nearly three dozen home video releases for labels like Altered Innocence, Severin Films, and Vinegar Syndrome. She programs and hosts the monthly Queer Cinema: Lost and Found screening series at Austin Film Society and the weekly Weird Wednesday series at Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn. She also co-programs and hosts the monthly queer film series and podcast Cruising the Movies at IFC Center and the adult film series Skin Deep at Roxy Cinema Tribeca. Her work has been shown at over two dozen international film festivals including BFI Flare, Frameline, and Outfest, as well as at venues like Anthology Film Archives and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Her programming, filmmaking, and research work has also been covered in several publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker.